HughHewitt.com Blog : Hugh Hewitt : The Return Of Obama's Press Corps: "The Director of National Intelligence James Clapper put on a dismaying performance with Diane Sawyer on Tuesday, one which would have led to frenzied calls for resignation if George W. Bush's DNIs, John Negraponte or Michael Hayden, had been caught so flat footed.
That gap in the 'questions' from the White House press corps at yesterday's meeting with the president was astonishing enough, but so too was the treatment of the Gitmo issue. Mike Emanuel asked a question, but left out the stunning rebuke and major defeat delivered the president in yesterday's Defense Authorization bill. Politico's Josh Gerstein has a good report of this major repudiation of a core objective of the Obama Administration, but not a single hard push on this from the press corps, and general indifference to it in the papers today.
The MSM generally and the White House press corps especially care about the DADT and the Dream Act, and as the MSM is overwhelmingly lefty, they overemphasize these stories and ignore or downplay the president's defeats such as with Gitmo and the trial of terrorists in the U.S."
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